Inhaltsangabe

Before Westeros there was Worlorn....

When Dirk t'Larien is beckoned across space to the distant world of Worlorn by his lost love, Gwen Delvano, a wild hope flares inside him. However, the rogue planet and his long awaited reunion with Gwen are nothing like Dirk ever imagined. Gwen is radically changed from the girl Dirk first fell in love with, and appears to be irrevocably bound to a violent alien savage and his barbaric culture. Worlorn is a desolate ruin of a planet, steadily hurtling through space away from the star system it relies on to support life - each dawn its seven red suns shine a little dimmer.

Once a thriving "festival world", now Worlorn is rapidly falling into decline. Nothing remains but scavengers and their prey. With no laws to govern it, it is a place where the hunters and the hunted are often interchangeable. It is a dying world steadily speeding towards its own destruction. Can Dirk protect Gwen and save her from this decaying planet and its dangerous inhabitants? Does she even want him to try?

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

5 out of 5 stars

one of the Best books eher writen

Von
ren
Am hilfreichsten
28.11.2017

Fire and Blood

300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Autor:
George R.R. Martin

Sprecher:
Simon Vance

Spieldauer: 26 Std. und 24 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
26

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
24

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.

1 out of 5 stars

Anstrengend

Von
Nora Ferne
Am hilfreichsten
15.01.2019

Artemis

Autor:
Andy Weir

Sprecher:
Rosario Dawson

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
827

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
786

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
783

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Originally published in 1987, the newly expanded saga contains additional original stories by eminent writers.

2 out of 5 stars

this story could use a shortcut

Von
Amazon Kunde
Am hilfreichsten
27.12.2016

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth, Book 1

Autor:
N. K. Jemisin

Sprecher:
Robin Miles

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 27 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
216

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
200

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
198

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

5 out of 5 stars

Fesselnde Geschichte, Geniale Erzählerin

Von
jemand_wie_ich
Am hilfreichsten
29.08.2018

Thin Air

Autor:
Richard Morgan

Sprecher:
Colin Mace

Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 8 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors, with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work. And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years...and it promises to be an audiobook to remember. An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected.

Blade Runner

Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Autor:
Philip K. Dick

Sprecher:
Scott Brick

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 12 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
101

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
86

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
87

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

5 out of 5 stars

one of the Best books eher writen

Von
ren
Am hilfreichsten
28.11.2017

Fire and Blood

300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Autor:
George R.R. Martin

Sprecher:
Simon Vance

Spieldauer: 26 Std. und 24 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
26

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
24

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.

1 out of 5 stars

Anstrengend

Von
Nora Ferne
Am hilfreichsten
15.01.2019

Artemis

Autor:
Andy Weir

Sprecher:
Rosario Dawson

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
827

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
786

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
783

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Originally published in 1987, the newly expanded saga contains additional original stories by eminent writers.

2 out of 5 stars

this story could use a shortcut

Von
Amazon Kunde
Am hilfreichsten
27.12.2016

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth, Book 1

Autor:
N. K. Jemisin

Sprecher:
Robin Miles

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 27 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
216

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
200

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
198

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

5 out of 5 stars

Fesselnde Geschichte, Geniale Erzählerin

Von
jemand_wie_ich
Am hilfreichsten
29.08.2018

Thin Air

Autor:
Richard Morgan

Sprecher:
Colin Mace

Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 8 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors, with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work. And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years...and it promises to be an audiobook to remember. An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected.

Children of Time

Autor:
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Sprecher:
Mel Hudson

Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 31 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
301

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
278

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
277

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel
Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

4 out of 5 stars

Conceptually very interesting

Von
werauchimmer
Am hilfreichsten
15.01.2018

The Killing Moon

Dreamblood, Book 1

Autor:
N. K. Jemisin

Sprecher:
Sarah Zimmerman

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 38 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
7

In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers - the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe...and kill those judged corrupt. But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh's great temple, Ehiru - the most famous of the city's Gatherers - must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers in the goddess' name, stalking its prey both in Gujaareh's alleys and the realm of dreams.

All Systems Red

Autor:
Martha Wells

Sprecher:
Kevin R. Free

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 17 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
77

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
70

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
71

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of
Westworld,
Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.

3 out of 5 stars

Viel zu kurz!

Von
T. Voigt
Am hilfreichsten
08.11.2018

Nightflyers and Other Stories

Autor:
George R. R. Martin

Sprecher:
Mike Grady

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 29 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
4

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
4

On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, however, the crew discovers that their greatest mystery - and most dangerous threat - is an unexpected force wielding a thirst for blood and terror.... Also included are five additional classic George R. R. Martin tales of science fiction that explore the breadth of technology and the dark corners of the human mind.

4 out of 5 stars

Not much new about this one

Von
Ingo Guenther
Am hilfreichsten
12.02.2019

Ironclads

Autor:
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Sprecher:
Peter Noble

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 8 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong. Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad killer out there? And how are common soldiers, lacking the protection afforded the rich, supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

The Big Over Easy

Nursery Crime Adventures, Book 1

Autor:
Jasper Fforde

Sprecher:
Luke Thompson

Spieldauer: 11 Std.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
2

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
2

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
2

Best-selling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series. It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.

5 out of 5 stars

Typically Fforde.

Von
Jonas
Am hilfreichsten
23.03.2019

The Name of the Wind

The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1

Autor:
Patrick Rothfuss

Sprecher:
Rupert Degas

Spieldauer: 28 Std. und 3 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
698

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
670

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
670

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe.You may have heard of me.

5 out of 5 stars

Großartig

Von
Stephan Schubert
Am hilfreichsten
20.01.2017

On a Red Station, Drifting

Autor:
Aliette de Bodard

Sprecher:
Emily Woo Zeller

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 22 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

For generations, Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station's artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper's brightest minds have been called away to defend the emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station's resources.

Windhaven

Autor:
George R. R. Martin,
Lisa Tuttle

Sprecher:
Harriet Walter

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 20 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
4

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
4

On the stormy planet of Windhaven, flyers are idolised as the vital link between its disparate islands. The common people rely on this elite class to support their way of life. These 'land-bound' can only dream of what it must be like to take to the skies. For Maris, dreams are not enough, and through an unlikely twist of fate, she has a taste of what life as a flyer is like. However, just as it seems that she has found her true calling, the hereditary dogma which rules the skies sets out to strip Maris of her wings.

The Black God's Drums

Autor:
P. Djeli Clark

Sprecher:
Channie Waites

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 4 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air - in particular, by earning a spot onboard the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie's trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls "The Black God's Drums". But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head and may have her own ulterior motivations.

Fevre Dream

Autor:
George R. R. Martin

Sprecher:
Ron Donachie

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 32 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Geschichte

3.5 out of 5 stars
3

Abner Marsh has finally realised his heart's desire, he has built the
Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi river. Marsh hopes to race the boat some day and prove its supremacy, but his partner seems determined to prevent him from fulfilling this ambition. Joshua York funded the creation of the Fevre Dream, but now rumours are spreading about the unusual company he keeps, his odd eating habits and strange waking hours. As the
Dream crosses the great river, it leaves in its wake too many sinister stories.

Gnomon

Autor:
Nick Harkaway

Sprecher:
Ben Onwukwe

Spieldauer: 29 Std. und 4 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
2

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
2

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
2

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Gnomon, written by Nick Harkaway, read by Ben Onwukwe. Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency'. Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories....